Detailed Description
In order to make the technical problems, technical schemes and beneficial effects to be solved more clear, the invention is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "mounted" or "disposed" on another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present.
It should be noted that terms such as up and down in the following embodiments are merely relative concepts or references to normal use states of the product, and should not be construed as limiting.
Referring to fig. 1, a charging system provided in an embodiment of the present invention is configured in a parking lot, and includes a power supply unit, a charging unit 1000, and a power supply cable 400 connecting the power supply unit and the charging unit 1000, where the power supply unit includes a power transmission device 300 capable of providing power to the charging unit 1000 through the power supply cable 400, the power transmission device 300 is arranged in the parking lot to extend along a plurality of parking spaces, and the charging unit 1000 and the power supply cable 400 are slidably disposed relative to the power transmission device 300 and are capable of synchronously moving to any parking space to charge a vehicle having electric power driving on the parking space.
In practical applications, the power supply unit is usually powered by an existing power distribution device or other power equipment, and the power distribution device is used as the power equipment, and the power distribution device 300 is only connected to the power distribution device when in use, so that the power distribution device can supply power to the whole power distribution device 300. The charging unit 1000 comprises a charging device 100 for connection to a vehicle for charging, such as a conventional charging peg.
The charging system is simple in structure, the power transmission device 300 is arranged in the parking lot in an extending mode along a plurality of parking spaces, and the charging unit 1000 and the power supply cable 400 are arranged in a sliding mode relative to the power transmission device 300 so as to synchronously move to any parking space, so that on one hand, the same charging unit 1000 can flexibly and conveniently charge vehicles on any parking space extended by the power transmission device 300, the configuration quantity of the charging devices of the charging unit 1000 is reduced, the configuration cost of the parking lot is reduced, on the other hand, in actual application, the length of the power supply cable 400 can be kept unchanged, and the vehicles on any parking space can be charged only by keeping the charging unit 1000 and the power supply cable 400 in synchronous motion relative to the power transmission device 300, and therefore the problems that the power supply cable 400 is overlong, inconvenient to pull and retract, potential safety hazards are easily caused when the charging device moves and charges are fundamentally solved, and the charging system has great economic significance for large-scale popularization and application of new energy vehicles.
Further, in the present embodiment, a guide unit for guiding the charging unit 1000 and the power supply cable 400 to move synchronously to any parking space is further included. The guide unit can further improve the flexibility and convenience of the synchronous movement of the charging unit 1000 and the power supply cable 400 with respect to the power transmission device 300.
Further, in the present embodiment, the guiding unit includes a guide rail 500 extending along a plurality of parking spaces and disposed opposite to the power transmission device 300, the charging unit 1000 is disposed on the guide rail 500 and slidably engaged with the guide rail 500, one end of the power supply cable 400 is fixedly connected to the charging unit 1000, and the other end of the power supply cable 400 is slidably connected to the power transmission device 300. The extension length of the guide rail 500 is substantially the same as the extension length of the power transmission device 300, and the power transmission device 300 preferably maintains substantially the same extension trajectory as the guide rail 500. The guide rail 500 is convenient to lay, plays a better guiding role, can also play a supporting role on the charging unit 1000, and improves the stability and reliability of the structure.
Further, in the present embodiment, the guiding unit further includes positioning devices 610 corresponding to a plurality of parking spaces, and the charging unit 1000 is provided with a positioning recognition device 620 used in cooperation with the plurality of positioning devices 610. In this way, in practical application, the charging unit 1000 can accurately position on the corresponding parking space through the identification of the positioning device 610 by the positioning identification device 620, which is beneficial to further realizing automatic movement positioning, and is beneficial to realizing rapid and accurate positioning and correspondingly improving the overall operation efficiency when used in places with more parking spaces.
In particular, in the present embodiment, the positioning device 610 is disposed on the guide rail 500. The positioning device 610 may be an existing electronic positioner and the corresponding positioning recognition device 620 may be an existing electronic positioning recognition device.
In addition, the positioning device 610 may also use an existing RFID electronic tag, and the corresponding positioning recognition device 620 may use an existing RFID read-write device. The radio frequency communication is carried out by utilizing the existing RFID electronic tag and RFID read-write equipment, so that the non-contact data transmission is realized, the advantages of rapidness, high efficiency, accuracy and the like are realized, and the automatic reading and writing of relevant identification information under the non-contact and moving states can be conveniently realized, so that the purposes of high-efficiency data transmission and accurate positioning are realized.
Further, in this embodiment, the guide rail 500 is disposed on the ground or the top or the side wall of the parking lot. The arrangement of the guide rail 500 can be selected correspondingly according to the actual space environment condition of the parking lot, so that the arrangement is more convenient, and the other arrangement of the parking lot and the running of the vehicle are hardly influenced.
More preferably, referring to fig. 1, the guide rail 500 is suspended by a bracket provided in the parking lot. The space occupied by the suspension of the guide rail 500 is small, the configuration of the guide rail 500 requiring bending is more flexible, and the same guide rail 500 is beneficial to extending more parking spaces for larger parking lots, so that the setting of a charging device is correspondingly beneficial to reducing the cost.
In particular, in the present embodiment, the charging unit 1000 is provided with guide wheels 700 slidably fitted with the guide rail 500. Referring to fig. 1, when the guide rail 500 adopts a suspended structure, the guide wheel 700 is preferably provided above the guide rail 500 and connected to the charging unit 1000 located below the guide rail 500 through a support member. The structure is convenient to assemble and disassemble, and the guide wheel 700 is utilized to guide the charging unit 1000 and plays a good supporting role.
Further, in the present embodiment, a plurality of charging units 1000 are included, and the plurality of charging units 1000 are respectively connected to the same power transmission device 300 via a plurality of power supply cables 400 to simultaneously charge vehicles on a plurality of corresponding parking spaces. The structure can avoid the condition that the special power supply cable is laid for each charging device independently in the prior art, and greatly saves the cost of cable installation, laying and maintenance. Of course, when charging a plurality of vehicles at the same time, the power transmission device 300 needs to have a sufficient load capacity. The number of the charging units 1000 may be selected according to actual needs, and is not limited herein.
In particular, in the present embodiment, the number of charging units 1000 is flexibly configured on the guide rail 500, so that the structure can well solve the contradiction that the willingness of configuring the charging device in the parking lot is not high and the users worry about difficult charging and are not willing to purchase new energy vehicles. In a stage where the new energy vehicle users are very few, the guide rail 500 and the corresponding power transmission device 300 can be preassembled only in the parking lot, and the parking lot or the charging device provider only needs to put in little cost; with the increase of new energy vehicle users, the vehicle can be conveniently charged only by installing and configuring the charging units 1000 on the guide rail 500, and the configuration quantity of the charging units 1000 can be correspondingly reduced by means of the mobility of the charging units 1000, so that the cost is reduced; when more new energy vehicle users exist, the number of the charging units 1000 is correspondingly increased to meet the charging requirement.
Preferably, in the present embodiment, the power transmission device 300 is an existing trolley line. Compared with other power transmission devices 300 such as common cables, the trolley line has long service life, is convenient to install and maintain, and is particularly suitable for severe environments and long-distance power transmission.
Further, the charging unit 1000 includes a charging device 100 and a charging cable auxiliary device 200 used in cooperation with the charging device 100. The charging cable 60 for connecting the vehicle can be conveniently stored or released by providing the charging cable assisting apparatus 200, thereby further improving the convenience of charging. The specific function and structure of the charging cable auxiliary device 200 will be described in detail below with reference to fig. 3 to 10.
Further, a control unit (not shown) for controlling the charging unit 1000 and the power supply cable 400 to automatically move to the corresponding parking space is also included. By arranging the control unit, unified and efficient management of a plurality of parking spaces and even all parking spaces of the whole parking lot and the charging unit 1000 can be realized, thereby being beneficial to improving the sharing rate and the utilization rate of the charging unit 1000.
Corresponding to the above charging system, referring to fig. 2, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a charging method, where the method uses the above charging system, and the method includes: step S100 of parking a vehicle having an electric drive to a corresponding parking space of a parking lot provided with the above-described charging system; step S200, synchronously moving the charging unit 1000 and the power supply cable 400 to a parking space where the vehicle is located through the charging system; step S300 connects the charging unit 1000 with a charging port of the vehicle to start charging; after the charging in step S400 is completed, the charging unit 1000 is disconnected from the charging port of the vehicle.
It should be noted that, since the charging method is based on the same concept as the embodiment of the charging system of the present invention, the technical effects brought by the charging method are the same as those brought by the embodiment of the charging system of the present invention, and the specific content can be referred to the description in the embodiment of the charging system of the present invention, which is not repeated here.
The charging method provided by the embodiment of the invention further comprises the step that a user controls the charging unit 1000 and the power supply cable 400 to automatically move to the corresponding parking space through the control unit.
In this embodiment, the user is first associated with the control unit through the terminal device to obtain the positional relationship between the parking space where the vehicle is located and the charging unit 1000, and then the control unit controls the corresponding charging unit 1000 and the power supply cable 400 to automatically move to the parking space where the vehicle is located according to the positional relationship.
In particular, in the present embodiment, the control unit indirectly drives the power supply cable 400 to move synchronously by controlling the movement of the charging unit 1000, so the following description of the control unit controlling the automatic movement of the charging unit 1000 should be understood that the power supply cable 400 also moves synchronously with the charging unit 1000, which is the same as the description below, and therefore will not be repeated.
Referring to fig. 2, the above step 200 may be implemented in the following three ways:
the first mode comprises the following steps: step S210a, a user acquires an identification code on the charging unit 1000 close to a parking space where the vehicle is located through a terminal device, transmits the identification code to a control unit, and requests the control unit to establish a data connection relationship with the charging unit 1000; step S220a, the control unit establishes a data connection relationship between the terminal device and the charging unit 1000, and confirms a position relationship between the parking space and the charging unit 1000 through analysis processing and/or according to a user instruction, etc., and step S230a, the user controls the corresponding charging unit 1000 to automatically move to a designated position (i.e. the parking space where the vehicle is located, the same applies below) according to the position relationship by using the control unit and/or the terminal device; after step S240 reaches the designated position, the charging unit 1000 stops moving.
The second mode comprises: step S210b, a user obtains an identification code of a parking space where the vehicle is located through the terminal equipment, transmits the identification code to the control unit, and requests the control unit to establish a data connection relationship with the charging unit 1000; step S220b, the control unit performs analysis processing and/or determines the available charging unit 1000 closest to the parking space according to the instruction of the user, etc., establishes a data connection relationship between the terminal device and the charging unit 1000, and confirms a positional relationship between the parking space and the charging unit 1000; step S230b, the control unit sends a movement positioning instruction to the charging unit 1000 according to the position relationship, so as to control the corresponding charging unit 1000 to automatically move to the designated position; after step S240 reaches the designated position, the charging unit 1000 stops moving.
In addition, in step S230b, the positioning device 610 and the positioning recognition device 620 may be used to implement accurate and quick positioning, specifically, after the control unit sends a movement positioning instruction to the charging unit 1000, the charging unit 1000 automatically moves under the control of the control unit and comprehensively determines whether the specified position is reached through the positioning recognition device 620 and the positioning device 610 in the movement process in step S235 b.
The third mode comprises: step S210c, locating the terminal device on the charging unit 1000, and requesting the control system to establish a data connection relationship with the charging unit 1000 by the user through the terminal device on the available charging unit 1000 nearest to the parking space where the vehicle is located; step S220c, the control unit establishes a data connection relationship between the terminal device and the charging unit 1000, and confirms a position relationship between the parking space and the charging unit 1000 through analysis processing and/or according to a user instruction and the like; step S230c, the user controls the corresponding charging unit 1000 to automatically move to the designated position according to the position relationship by using the control unit and/or the terminal device; after step S240 reaches the designated position, the charging unit 1000 stops moving.
It should be noted that, the terminal device in the above three modes may be an existing smart phone, a tablet, a smart watch, etc., and in the third mode, the terminal device provided on the charging unit 1000 is preferably an existing control panel with a man-machine interaction function, and in addition, application software (APP) for use by the terminal device may be developed by using an existing technical means, and the APP may be connected to the control unit to perform corresponding data transmission, control, etc.; the control unit can comprise a server and a network data platform based on the server, which is developed by utilizing the prior technical means, and the network data platform is utilized to complete related works such as establishing a data connection relationship, transmitting data, sending control instructions and the like. The identification code in the first and second modes may be a common two-dimensional code, serial number, or the like.
The method is flexible and convenient to operate, is beneficial to improving the intelligent degree, reduces the processing difficulty and complexity of the charging business of the parking lot, and improves the service level and quality.
Further, between the above-mentioned step S240 and step S300, a step S260 of releasing the charging cable 60 to a predetermined length according to a user instruction or through the above-mentioned charging cable auxiliary device 200 is further included; in step S300, the user connects the charging gun 800 connected to the charging cable 60 to the charging port of the vehicle to start charging; after the charging of step S400 is completed, the charging gun 800 is disconnected from the charging port of the vehicle and further includes a step of storing the charging cable 60 according to a user instruction or through the charging cable auxiliary device 200.
Referring to fig. 3 and 4, a charging cable auxiliary device 200 provided in an embodiment of the present invention is used in cooperation with a charging device 100, and includes a cable winding and unwinding mechanism and a power supply opening and closing mechanism, wherein the power supply opening and closing mechanism includes an input unit 30 connected with the charging device 100 and an output unit 20 connected with a charging cable 60 and capable of connecting the charging cable 60 with the input unit 30, and the cable winding and unwinding mechanism includes a driving unit 40 and a wire storage mechanism 10 capable of synchronously rotating with the output unit 20 under the driving of the driving unit 40 to store or release the charging cable 60.
This charging cable auxiliary device 200, simple structure, on the one hand, through setting up the charging and the outage that supply start and stop mechanism can be convenient control charging cable 60, on the other hand through setting up cable winding and unwinding mechanisms and making its wire storage mechanism 10 and the output unit 20 synchronous rotation of supply start and stop mechanism, when realizing automatic storage or release charging cable 60, can avoid charging cable 60 to receive external force and other people's factor influence and appear dangling, drag, distortion, problem such as damage when accomodating or release to convenience and the security that charges that can be very big improvement.
Further, referring to fig. 3, 4 and 9, the wire storage mechanism 10 includes a wire storage mechanism body and an external wire slot formed by the wire storage mechanism body, the wire storage mechanism body is internally provided with a groove 11, the output unit 20 is arranged in the groove 11 and fixedly connected with the wire storage mechanism body, and the input unit 30 is arranged outside the groove 11 opposite to the output unit 20. The output unit 20 is arranged in the groove 11 arranged in the wire storage mechanism body, so that the wire storage mechanism is convenient to manufacture and assemble and disassemble, a large amount of space can be saved, the overall structure is compact, the groove 11 of the wire storage mechanism body is utilized to play a good supporting role on the output unit 20, the supporting structure of the output unit 20 is not required to be additionally arranged, the connection between the output unit 20 and the wire storage mechanism body is ensured to be stable, and the reliability and the stability of the overall structure are good.
Further, referring to fig. 3, 4 and 9, in the present embodiment, the cable winding and unwinding device further includes a common cable connector 70, the cable connector 70 is disposed at the bottom of the groove 11 opposite to the output unit 20 and is fixedly connected to the body of the wire storage mechanism 10, and the charging cable 60 sequentially passes through the output unit 20 and the cable connector 70 and then passes through the body of the wire storage mechanism 10 to be placed in the external wire slot. Of course, a through hole 34 through which the charging cable 60 passes is preferably preset on the side wall of the body of the cord storage mechanism 10. The arrangement of the cable connector 70 can ensure that current smoothly and reliably flows through the charging cable 60 on one hand, and on the other hand, the charging cable 60 connected with the output unit 20 and positioned in the groove 11 can play a good wire arrangement role, so that the charging cable 60 is prevented from being placed in the groove 11 in disorder, the connection of the output unit 20 and the charging cable 60 is prevented from being directly influenced by external force pulling, the connection stability of the power transmission unit and the charging cable 60 is good, and the normal charging operation is ensured.
Further, referring to fig. 3, 4 and 9, the wire storage mechanism 10 at the bottom of the groove 11 is further provided with a mounting manhole 12. In particular, in the present embodiment, the cable connector 70 is disposed at the center of the body of the wire storage mechanism 10 at the bottom of the groove 11, and the installation and maintenance hole 12 includes two holes and is disposed offset from the center of the cable connector 70. By arranging the installation and maintenance holes 12, the convenience of installation and maintenance can be greatly improved.
Further, referring to fig. 3 to 8, the power supply on-off mechanism is a power supply coupler that controls coupling or decoupling between the input unit 30 and the output unit 20 by means of the trigger unit to correspondingly turn on or off the power supply loop. Coupling techniques are common in the electronics arts, and the principles thereof are referenced to the corresponding prior art and are not described in detail herein. The power supply coupler is adopted as a power supply opening and closing mechanism, and has the advantages of strong anti-interference capability, high sensitivity, small transmission loss, large power capacity, good reliability and the like. The power supply coupler makes full use of the coupling or separation between the input unit 30 and the output unit 20 to correspondingly start or shut off power supply, and can play a role in simplifying the structure. The input unit 30 is electrically connected to the charging device 100.
Further, referring to fig. 3 to 8, the triggering unit includes an electromagnetic sensor for controlling the coupling or decoupling of the input unit 30 and the output unit 20, and a position switch 51 for detecting the coupling or decoupling of the input unit 30 and the output unit 20. The electromagnetic inductor has high sensitivity and large output signal, long service life, strong dust, water and oil stain resistance, and can resist various severe environmental conditions and external noise. In addition, it is also possible to use, for example, existing proximity-sensitive or scanning-sensitive sensor devices as triggering units. Specifically, when the input unit 30 and the output unit 20 are in the coupled state, the contact of the position switch 51 can be selectively turned on or off according to actual needs; when the input unit 30 and the output unit 20 are in the separated state, the contact state of the position switch 51 is opposite to that when coupled. In actual application, whether the cable take-up and pay-off mechanism is allowed to operate or not can be judged by utilizing the on/off of the position switch 51; particularly, when the power supply opening and closing mechanism is conducted, the cable winding and unwinding mechanism is forbidden to work; when the power supply opening and closing mechanism is disconnected, the cable retracting mechanism is allowed to start to release or store the charging cable 60, and the use safety of the charging cable auxiliary device 200 is further improved.
Further, the electromagnetic inductor includes a coil 53, an iron core 52 fixedly connected to the input unit 30, and a reset structure 54 disposed between the coil 53 and the iron core 52, when exciting, referring to fig. 3 and 7, the iron core 52 is far away from the coil 53 under the action of electromagnetic force and drives the input unit 30 to move in a direction separating from the output unit 20, and when losing magnetism, referring to fig. 4 and 8, the iron core 52 is close to the coil 53 by a restoring force provided by the reset structure 54 and drives the input unit 30 to move in a direction coupling with the output unit 20. The electromagnetic inductor has a simple structure and can achieve a good control effect when being matched with the position switch 51. The number of electromagnetic inductors can be selected accordingly as required. The return structure 54 may be a spring or other resilient element.
Specifically, referring to fig. 3 to 6, the input unit 30 includes a first substrate, a first power supply coupling contact portion 32 provided on the first substrate, and a plurality of input connection terminals 33 led out from the first power supply coupling contact portion 32 and used for connecting the charging device 100, and the output unit 20 includes a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a second power supply coupling contact portion 21 provided on the second substrate and corresponding to the first power supply coupling contact portion 32, and a plurality of output connection terminals 22 led out from the second power supply coupling contact portion 21 and connected to the charging cable 60. The first substrate and the second substrate are both insulating substrates.
Further, referring to fig. 3 to 6, in the present embodiment, the second power supply coupling contact portion 21 is a plurality of power supply coupling contact rings disposed on the second substrate at intervals, a plurality of annular insulating spacers 31 disposed on the first substrate at intervals and alternately distributed with the power supply coupling contact rings, the first power supply coupling contact portion 32 is disposed between the annular insulating spacers 31, the plurality of input connection terminals 33 are respectively led out from a side of the first substrate opposite to the first power supply coupling contact portion 32, and the plurality of output connection terminals 22 are respectively led out from a side of the second substrate opposite to the power supply coupling contact rings. The structure greatly improves the whole coupling contact area on one hand, more conveniently leads out a plurality of corresponding wiring terminals on the other hand, and ensures orderly wiring.
Further, referring to fig. 3 and 4, the driving unit 40 includes a control motor 41, a driving wheel 42 connected to the control motor 41, a driven wheel 43 matched with the driving wheel 42, and a transmission shaft 44 connected to the driven wheel 43, and the transmission shaft 44 passes through the input unit 30, and is in transmission connection with the output unit 20 to drive the wire storage mechanism 10 to rotate synchronously. Since the user is located generally close to the wire storage mechanism 10, positioning the drive unit 40 on a side relatively far from the wire storage mechanism 10 is advantageous for improving the safety in use. Of course, other drive units 40 may be employed, such as a hydraulic drive unit 40.
The yarn storage mechanism 10 is preferably a spool structure, and the second substrate is preferably an inverted tubular structure having one end opened.
In particular, in the present embodiment, the charging device 100 includes a housing 101, and at least a support structure for supporting the wire storage mechanism 10 and the input unit 30 is provided on the housing 101. The support structure includes a support aperture frame 102 and a support wall.
The wire storage mechanism 10 is further provided with a rotating shaft 13 at a side opposite to the cable connector 70, and the rotating shaft 13 is inserted into the supporting hole frame 102.
The bottom wall of the second substrate is opposite to the bottom of the groove 11, the side wall of the second substrate extends along the bottom wall of the second substrate in a direction away from the bottom of the groove 11 and is matched with the side wall of the groove 11, the second substrate is integrally nested and fixed in the groove 11, the annular insulating plates are arranged on the bottom wall of the second substrate at intervals and extend in a direction away from the bottom wall of the second substrate, and the bottom wall of the second substrate is provided with a central hole 23 for connecting a transmission shaft 44.
The first substrate is preferably concave, the bottom wall of the second substrate is opposite to the bottom wall of the first substrate, the second substrate includes a first side wall extending along the bottom wall of the second substrate in a direction away from the first substrate and a second side wall extending outside the first side wall, the annular insulating plates are arranged on the bottom wall of the first substrate at intervals and extend in a direction toward the bottom wall of the second substrate, a through hole 34 through which a transmission shaft 44 can pass is arranged in the center of the bottom wall of the first substrate, the second side wall is provided with a plurality of side through holes 35 for connecting with an iron core 52, and the triggering unit is arranged between the second side wall and the charging device 100. The second side wall may be fixedly coupled to core 52 by bolts or other structures.
The supporting arm 103 of the charging device 100 is disposed between the bottom wall of the first substrate and the opening of the second substrate, and the coil 53 of the triggering unit is fixedly connected to the supporting arm 103.
The operation principle of the charging cable assistance apparatus 200 is described in detail as follows:
when the charging cable 60 needs to be stored or released, the plurality of electromagnetic inductors are excited simultaneously to enable the iron core 52 to stretch in a direction away from the coil 53, so that the whole input unit 30 is pushed to move in a direction separating from the output unit 20, the first power supply coupling contact part 32 is separated from the second power supply coupling contact part 21, the control motor 41 drives the output unit 20 and the wire storage mechanism 10 to synchronously rotate forward and backward through the driving wheel 42, the driven wheel 43 and the transmission shaft 44 in sequence, and the charging cable 60 is released or stored in an external wire slot.
When the vehicle needs to be charged, the plurality of electromagnetic sensors lose magnetism at the same time, so that the iron core 52 contracts to the coil 53 under the action of the reset structure 54, the input unit 30 is pulled to move towards the direction of coupling with the output unit 20, the first power supply coupling contact part 32 is in contact coupling with the second power supply coupling contact part 21, and the charging device 100 can provide power for the charging cable 60 through the input unit 30 and the output unit 20, so that the charging cable 60 further charges the vehicle.
The triggering unit can adopt the following control mode:
when the charging device 100 determines that the charging cable 60 needs to be stored or released, or when the charging device 100 receives an instruction to release or store the charging cable 60, the electromagnetic inductor is excited to extend the iron core 52 in a direction away from the coil 53, so as to push the whole input unit 30 to move in a direction away from the output unit 20, so that the first power supply coupling contact portion 32 and the second power supply coupling contact portion 21 are separated to trigger the position switch 51 to act and send power supply opening and closing mechanism disconnection state information. Accordingly, the cable reel mechanism may be allowed to begin releasing or housing the charging cable 60 based on the disconnect status information.
When the charging device 100 determines that the vehicle needs to be charged or receives an instruction to start charging, the electromagnetic sensor loses magnetism to enable the iron core 52 to retract to the coil 53 under the action of the reset structure 54, and pulls the input unit 30 to move in the direction coupled with the output unit 20, so that the first power supply coupling contact portion 32 and the second power supply coupling contact portion 21 contact and couple to trigger the position switch 51 to act and send out the on state information of the power supply opening and closing mechanism. Accordingly, the cable winding and unwinding mechanism can be prohibited from working according to the on-state information.
The control motor 41 may be controlled as follows:
when the input unit 30 is separated from the output unit 20 and an instruction to release the charging cable 60 is received, the control motor 41 is started and rotated in a direction to release the charging cable 60, so that the charging cable 60 is released by the rotation of the wire storage mechanism 10; upon receiving an instruction to house the charging cable 60, the control motor 41 is started and rotated in the direction to house the charging cable 60. The control motor 41 may stop rotating to control the amount of storage or release of the charging cable 60 by operating for a certain time or after the operating current exceeds a set value.
Referring to fig. 10, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a charging cable auxiliary device 200, which is used in cooperation with the charging device 100, and includes a cable winding and unwinding mechanism and a power supply opening and closing mechanism, wherein the power supply opening and closing mechanism includes an input unit 30 connected with the charging device 100 and an output unit 20 connected with the charging cable 60 and capable of connecting the charging cable 60 with the input unit 30, the cable winding and unwinding mechanism includes a driving unit 40 and a cable storage mechanism 10 capable of synchronously rotating with the output unit 20 under the driving of the driving unit 40 to store or release the charging cable 60, at least two cable storage mechanisms 10 are provided in parallel, and the two cable storage mechanisms 10 synchronously rotate under the driving of the driving unit 40 to jointly store or release the same charging cable 60.
The charging cable auxiliary device 200 is based on the further improvement of the last charging cable auxiliary device 200, and the charging cable auxiliary device 200 can greatly increase the area for accommodating the charging cable 60 by arranging two wire storage mechanisms 10 on the premise of improving the charging convenience and safety and ensuring the overall structure to be simple and compact, thereby improving the efficiency of accommodating or releasing the charging cable 60, and being particularly suitable for the occasion where the charging cable 60 is longer.
Further, in the present embodiment, the wire storage mechanism 10 includes a wire storage mechanism 10 body and an external wire slot formed by the wire storage mechanism 10 body, the wire storage mechanism 10 body of one of the two wire storage mechanisms 10 is provided with a groove 11, the output unit 20 is disposed in the groove 11 and fixedly connected with the wire storage mechanism 10 body, and the input unit 30 is disposed outside the groove 11 opposite to the input unit 30. Such a structure, while improving the efficiency of housing or releasing the charging cable 60, does not interfere with the structure of the power supply opening and closing mechanism nor the normal operation of the power supply opening and closing unit.
Further, in the present embodiment, the cable winding and unwinding device further includes a cable connector 70, the cable connector 70 is disposed at the bottom of the groove 11 opposite to the output unit 20 and fixedly connected to the body of the wire storage mechanism 10, and the charging cable 60 sequentially passes through the output unit 20 and the cable connector 70 and then passes through the body of the wire storage mechanism 10 to be placed in the external trunking of the two wire storage mechanisms 10. Such a structure can well ensure that the charging cable 60 is orderly wound in the wire storage mechanism 10 without cable twisting or the like.
Further, the driving unit 40 includes a control motor 41, a driving wheel 42 connected to the control motor 41, two driven wheels 43 matched with the driving wheel 42, and two transmission shafts 44 connected to the driven wheels 43, wherein one transmission shaft 44 passes through the input unit 30, and is in transmission connection with the output unit 20 to drive a wire storage mechanism 10 to synchronously rotate, and the other transmission shaft 44 is in transmission connection with the other wire storage mechanism 10. The driving mode has high efficiency, and the same control motor 41 can be fully utilized to synchronously control the output unit 20 and the two wire storage mechanisms 10, so that the cost is reduced, and the space and the energy are saved. It will be appreciated that the appropriate drive wheel 42 and driven wheel 43 may be selected according to the size of the wire storage mechanism 10 to avoid interference between the two wire storage mechanisms 10.
In addition, in the present embodiment, in order to simplify the structure, the inside of the wire storage mechanism 10 where the output unit 20 is not provided may be a hollow structure, and the transmission shaft 44 may penetrate through the wire storage mechanism 10 and then be connected to the support hole frame 102, so that the rotation shaft 13 does not need to be provided on the wire storage mechanism 10.
Of course, the structure of the charging cable assist device 200 having two wire storage mechanisms 10, such as the power supply start-stop mechanism, may be the same as the charging cable assist device 200 in the embodiment shown in fig. 3 to 9, and will not be described here.
The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the invention is not intended to be limiting, but rather is intended to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and principles of the invention.